“Empires have fallen like this, he thinks, but it only makes him want her more, makes him look at his hands and think, My god, what a waste of time doing anything else but holding her. What a waste, and then he says aloud, JesusfuckingChrist what have you done to me? And she says, Kiss me.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“The thought of having you is more dangerous than any cocktail of drugs, the idea of belonging to you endlessly destructive.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“I don’t like knowing people in the context of things. "Oh, that’s the person I work out with. That’s the person I’m in a book club with. That’s the person I did that show with." Because once the context ends, so does the friendship”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“I am more addicted to the thought of your name on my tongue than I am to any other form of vice.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“I yearn to know the people I love deeply and intimately—without context, without boxes—and I yearn for them to know me that way, too.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
jess’s 2025 Year in Books
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